OTTAWA — An eight-year bid to include transgender rights in Canadian anti-discrimination and hate laws is likely to suffer another legislative setback, despite support from a majority in both chambers of Parliament.
The proposed legislation appeared poised to pass the Senate but did not make it to a final vote before the summer recess began last week.

NEW YORK — Activists, actors and politicians gathered Saturday in New York City to honor civil rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the Harlem site where he was killed 50 years ago.
About 300 people converged to hear remarks from one of Malcolm X’s six daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as elected officials. The ceremony was held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, formerly known as the Audubon Ballroom.

The Conservative Party's new plan to pull Britain out the reach of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) if it wins in the general election next year has at least one international supporter: Russia's Vladimir Putin.

OTTAWA — Opposition senators are to push for a quick, and final, vote on a transgender rights bill, hoping this will give the NDP enough time to pull off a legislative “miracle” and finally make the bill law before MPs hit the campaign trail later this year.
The NDP MP behind the bill, however, says the changes senators have made to the proposed legislation have effectively ensured its death.

She was the chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) during its most tumultuous, and fateful, period on record; inspired, she said, by her favourite line in the Canadian Human Rights Act, that “all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have.” Jennifer Lynch died has died at age 63 after watching the commission she championed stripped of its once-powerful mandate to fight allegedly offensive speech.